One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
